As you can imagine, the Seminar is taking up a lot of my time with just one week to go. With more than 350 delegates registered, it promises to be a really stimulating event, and I believe the dinner will be excellent.

I am looking forward to catching up with contacts and meeting new people from across the FERMA membership. If you have not already registered, there is still time. You will find instructions in this newsletter.

Florence Bindelle, Executive Manager

In mid-September, I attended the annual conference of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA), our partner in preparing the two sets of guidance on the 8th European Company Law Directive. The outgoing ECIIA president Carolyn Dittmeier mentioned the guidance in her presentation to the conference on trends in European corporate governance. We are hoping to continue our collaboration on other projects.

Planning for the 2013 FERMA Forum has already begun in earnest. One of our first tasks is to interest the sponsors whose support allows us to make the Forum the biggest event of its type in Europe. We are also holding the first scientific meeting to discuss the content on 24 October, just after the Seminar. If there are any topics that you really want to see included in the programme, this is a good time to let me know.

See you in Versailles.
Florence Bindelle, Executive Manager